The history and collections know-how of longtime Warhol archivist Matt Wrbican has already helped fill many books. Now the Pop Art archaeologist is filling his own book with an A-to-Z account of Warhol’s world.

In the early days of The Andy Warhol Museum, before there was a building to call a museum, there was Matt Wrbican.

Among the first handful of people hired in 1991—four years after Andy Warhol’s death and three years before The Warhol officially opened its doors—Wrbican took on the role of assistant archivist and was immediately dispatched to New York City.

Under the direction of The Warhol’s first director and curator, Mark Francis, and with guidance from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, he was charged with sorting through all the things—large and small, ordinary and extraordinary, weird and wonderful—that Warhol left behind.

And there was a lot.

By Barbara Klein

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Carnegie Museum of Art's 18th-century Neapolitan presepio Nativity scene. Handcrafted between 1700 and 1830, the presepio is filled with lifelike figures and colorful details that re-create the Nativity within a vibrant and detailed panorama of 18th-century Italian village life.

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Nia Arrington has never been one to stay silent in the face of injustice. In the fourth grade, she learned about the devastating earthquake ravaging an already suffering Haiti and organized a coin drive that raised nearly $1,000. In her junior year at Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School (CAPA), she led a walkout over the nomination of Betsy DeVos as the nation’s education secretary, and this past school year she helped organize a local youth-led march against gun violence as part of the Never Again movement.

Inside the Museums

Inside Carnegie Science Center's Miniature Railroad & Village’s workshop. Each fall, the 90-year-old exhibit is shut down for two months of maintenance while Patty Rogers and her small team of part-time employees and a group of dedicated volunteers rework and clean the scenes that capture the spirit of how the people of western Pennsylvania lived, worked, and played from the 1880s through the late 1930s—all in miniature.

Free Admission at the Oakland Museums and The Warhol on Sunday, October 28

Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History and The Andy Warhol Museum are free of charge on Sunday, October 28, for all who wish to come. We stand firmly with our friends and neighbors at the Tree of Life Synagogue and with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to the victims of Saturday’s tragic shooting. (Note: Carnegie Science Center is closed on Sunday due to the Steelers home game.)

Weather Delay

The Oakland Museums and The Andy Warhol Museum will open at Noon today due to weather.
As previously scheduled, Carnegie Science Center is closed to the public.